World Cultures Daily Round Up for (date)


Scribed by: Alyssa, Kirste, Zach,Nick,Grady,Kyle E., Brittani

Activities for today
  • Describe acitivies for class
  • We had a sub today.
  • We had to read a couple pages about Japanese culture, and lifestyle.
  • We had to figure out what mountains were drawn on the board. (By Eric Cech)
  • We had to study for the quiz.
  • We had 3 questions about japanese culture and 3 questions about the japanese school system.
  • We read 2 pages about japanese culture and answered ?'s about them.
  • We learned that students from japan have to take entrence exams to get into any level of school.
  • We learned that Japanese kids have to go to elementary school for six years.
  • she told us that the NC Tarheels got their name because they stuck to their positions like they had tar on their heels
  • she talked about the revolutionary war and other wars
  • the sub told us to never let somebody tell you you're not good enough because that's what people told michael jordan when he was a junior at NC (when he was a sophmore in high school he didnt make the team not junior)
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Concepts covered in class with brief summary
  • Describe important concepts covered in class
  • We really didn't have any concepts to go over in class.
  • We learned from the one of the articles about the Japanese school system and how it is simiar/different from the US

Assignments for tomorrow or later
  • Describe assignments made in class today
  • If you haven't done the reading assignment, you should get right to it before its due.
  • We have a geography quiz over Japan tomarrow
  • We must read out of the Red Book by Friday
  • Study for the Japan Quiz wednesday

Additional resources and interesting items related to class today
  • Here is where you put facts, websites or other information that relates to concepts discussed in class
  • The sub (mrs. curlee) taught about why north carolina has a team called the tar heels and some interesting facts about the civil war